PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
It was founded through military means and direct conquest by Nawab
Maqbool
Alam Khan Bahadur, a mansabdar under Emperor Aurangzeb. After the
Mughal
Empire's collapse, the Belha Nawabs declared themselves independent and
fought alongside the Peshwa rulers of Poona against the British in the
early 19th century, but they lost and paid the price, being reduced in
status to that of an estate. Rulers were...
- Nawab MAQBOOL ALAM KHAN -/1743, originally the Nawab of
Junner (of
which
Belha was then part), and first Nawab of Belha.
- Nawab MIR MAHMUD ALAM KHAN Bahadur 1743/-, ruled jointly
with his brother.
- ......
- Nawab MIR ABDUL HUSSAIN ALAM KHAN Bahadur
- Nawab MIR MAHMD ALAM KHAN Bahadur, married and had issue.
- Nawab MIR SAEED ALAM KHAN Bahadur
(qv)
- Nawab MIR SAEED ALAM KHAN Bahadur,
married Musammatpanah
Zia-ul-Nissa Ladli Begum Sahiba, daughter of Darbar Shri MIR JAFUR ALI
KHAN of Kamadhia, and had issue.
- Nawab MIR ABDUL RASOOL ALAM KHAN Bahadur (qv)
- Nawab MIR ABDUL RASOOL ALAM KHAN Bahadur -/1921, married
and had issue.
He died 1929
- Nawab MIR MASUD ALAM KHAN Bahadur
(qv)
- Nawabzada Mir Saeed Alam Khan
- Nawab MIR MASUD ALAM KHAN Bahadur
1921/1943, C.I.E.
[cr.1926], Nawab of Belha and head of the senior branch of the
Nawab
of Surat's family, married Mahmudannissa
Begum
Sahiba of Belha, and had issue. He died 1943.
- Nawab MIR SULTAN ALAM KHAN
Bahadur
(qv)
- Nawabzadi Shahzadi Begum (Begum Mohammed Sadiq of Mangrol)
- Nawabzadi Hussain Jehan Begum
- Nawabzadi Zia-ul-nissa Ladli Begum, married Darbar Shri
MIR KUTBUDDIN
of Kamadhia.
- Nawab MIR SULTAN ALAM KHAN Bahadur
1943/1989, married Nawabzadi
Saida Bano Begum of Loharu, and had issue. He died 28th August 1989.
- Nawab MIR USMAN ALAM KHAN Bahadur (qv)
- Nawab MIR USMAN ALAM KHAN Bahadur (see above)
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